Reddit reviews Tigers of the Sea: Hawaii's Deadly Sharks

Here's the story about the March 26 incident. Excerpt:

>“He comes back to my canoe and latches onto the back end of it. He’s not about to let go,” Bernstone recalled. “So I turn around and start beating him with my paddle.” Finally, the animal released the canoe from its clutches...The shark made a third pass, this time capsizing the watercraft and sending the 74-year-old Bernstone spilling into open ocean...“He was right there (when I was in the water)....“I was beating him over the head with my paddle to get him to let loose.”

(An initial news account that says Bernstone was bitten was later corrected to say he suffered a small cut while falling off his canoe.)

>In addition, only shark encounters that involve someone being injured are listed, not when a shark bites a board or boat.

If DLNR wants to consider this a non-incident, thereby excluding it from the listing, that is their prerogative. The man in the March 2018 attack was also knocked into the water from his paddle board. He then lost part of his leg to the shark.

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      >For more on sharks in Hawai‘i and ocean safety tips...
      
      For more on the historical pattern of sharks-human encounters in Hawaii, please visit THE ANNOTATED LIST OF SHARK ATTACKS IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,1779-1993.
      
      I also suggest reading former Honolulu Advertiser reporter Jim Borg's book Tigers of the Sea. Borg, who extensively reported on the early 1990s Shark Task Force, discusses how the authors of Hawaii's prominent 1994 shark study excluded several incidents from qualifying as a shark attack, including the disappearance of Bryan Adona on Oahu's North Shore in Feb. 1992 and missing diver Ray Mehl (p. 53-54).
      
      Apparently some parties find it convenient to have the list of Hawaii shark incidents be as short as possible. It is unfortunate that researcher George Balazs, author of the Annotated List, is no longer available to provide accurate, detailed information about human-shark encounters in Hawaii.